your favourite Dylan and period

[Landys ghost]

The hip,tell it like is ,truth attacks of 65/6 and that fantastic period 1965 - 1968,which he could never repeat, made his name and totally smashed the competition, but maybe we're all "victims" of liking our Bob when we first find him


[ remember our bargain Kent]

[Sandrine]

It's hard to say. I like all his periods (not too much 80')

I suppose I was a victim when I listened to my first Bob Dylan's song.

[aspicco]

I don't like any particular period of Dylan, as he has good and weak songs in every period. And altho' I listened to Dylan for a large part of my adult life, I didn't get "into" Dylan until "Love & Theft." As if to prove Landy's theory, I think "Love & Theft" is his best album from start to finish, but even there I tend to skip Sugar Baby... I find something to like, and dislike, on every album I have ever heard.

[aspicco]

BTW Landy... tell it like it is? Dylan? That's pretty funny... applying that description to one of the most elusive & elliptical songwriters ever...

[Landys ghost]

BTW Landy... tell it like it is? Dylan? That's pretty funny... applying that description to one of the most elusive & elliptical songwriters ever...

i mean the confrontational Bob, eg the SF Press Conferences,where he, basically tells the media to fuck off

[thin man]

I find something to like, and dislike, on every album I have ever heard.same here, I think that's normal. I would add I don't listen to anyone else nearly so intensely.

[thin man]

Landy.. I have never considered there to be more than 1 DYLAN period .. and I'm thankful, that I'm living in it

[Sandrine]

It's hard to say what first album for someone who doesn't know his albums.

[aspicco]

Landy
confrontational bob? yeah he was a good press conference subject... but i think of that as his persona, not his music and songs...

thin man
I listen to Van Morrison more closely than Bob, but I listen for the sound with Van, not the words... and even with Bob, I didn't enjoy him as a fan until I got past the words... "Love & Theft" was when I finally "heard" the totality of Bob as songwriter & musician... I was deaf to him for decades... admired him but wasn't a fan... until I heard the musicality

[Sandrine]

I haven't the words at once. But in the songs (for all artists) , it's the melody (the music) which please or not.

The words come after.

You can have the best poem, the best text but if you don't have a great melody, the people won't like the song.
Because the songs are not novels.

Bob Dylan manages to associate attractive musics on great texts.

[Landys ghost]

I haven't the words at once. But in the songs (for all artists) , it's the melody (the music) which please or not.

The words come after.

You can have the best poem, the best text but if you don't have a great melody, the people won't like the song.
Because the songs are not novels.

Bob Dylan manages to associate attractive musics on great texts.

I doubt whether Dylan could be described as a "great " melodicist given that he writes so many within a very limited musical structure, imo the music is adequate to drive the words, but he's no Gershwin